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HARRY, JOSEPH (1863 - 1950), schoolmaster and Independent minister , but by 1895 he had returned again to Carmarthen where, with W. Roberts and T. Wedros Jones, he sought to keep the Old College School open. He was the headmaster of the school from 1885 to 1913 and he encouraged generations of young boys into the ministry and into the professions. He accepted the pastorate of Salem congregational church, Llandovery, in 1913 and he remained there until his retirement
HARRY, MILES (1700 - 1776), Baptist minister charged with causing a riot at Pontypool, was acquitted at the Monmouth Assizes in August 1739. He collaborated with his brother John Harry and with John Phillips in a Welsh version (1725) of Alleine's Some Discoveries. He has had no biographer, but his successor at Pen-y-garn, David Jones (1741 - 1792), wrote an elegy: 'Marwnad y Parchedig Mr. Miles Harries o Drosnant' (Carmarthen, 1777).
HARTMANN, EDWARD GEORGE (1912 - 1995), historian and promoter of Welsh-American relations Edward George Hartmann was born on 3 May 1912 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA, the son of Louis Hartmann (1877-1954) and his wife Catherine (née Jones-Davies, 1877-1940). Catherine was three years old when her family emigrated to the United States. Her father, Edward R. Jones, came from Penhernwenfach, near Llanwrtyd Wells, in Breconshire. Edward Hartmann recalled that Catherine's mother, Jane
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author . Prys-Jones), she used traditional forms with an effect which occasionally echoed W.H. Davies, leading 'Wil Ifan' (William Evans) to call her 'Gwent's Second Voice'.
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HEMP, WILFRID JAMES (1882 - 1962), archaeologist Born 27 April 1882 in Richmond, Surrey, the only child of James Kynnerly Hemp and his wife, Alice Challoner (née Smith). Her sister had married J. Lloyd-Jones, rector of Cricieth 1883-1922, and this gave Hemp a connection with north Wales, where he spent his summer holidays in Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Highgate School, London, and his first appointment was at the Principal Probate
teulu HERBERT Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton (1586 - 1666) and was reconciled to the Protectorate (reputedly through Philip Jones (1617 - 1673), serving on the Montgomeryshire assessment committee (1657) but afterwards becoming involved in Booth's rebellion (1659). After the Restoration he became custos rotulorum of Montgomeryshire (1660-78) and Denbighshire (1666-78), but before the end of his life fell foul of the
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal Australia in 1959. Eleven years later, Ithel Jones, the Principal of the Baptist College in Cardiff, also emigrated to Australia to become pastor of the Baptist church meeting in Collins Street, Melbourne. In Australia, Mervyn Himbury's task was to guide the Baptist College in Victoria in its quest to become a residential college affiliated to the University of Melbourne. This was accomplished in 1965
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher Alun Hoddinott was born in Bargoed on 11 August 1929, the son of a schoolteacher, Thomas Ivor Hoddinott, and his wife Gertrude (née Jones). The family moved to Gorseinon and he received his education at Gowerton Grammar School, which boasted a strong musical tradition. He began the violin at a young age and was one of the first members of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, formed in 1946. In
HOOSON, ISAAC DANIEL (1880 - 1948), solicitor and poet Born 2 May 1880, at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, son of Edward and Harriet Hooson. His father's family originally came from Cornwall. I. D. Hooson was educated at the Rhos board school and Ruabon grammar school. In 1897 he entered the service of Messrs Morris and Jones in Liverpool, where he stayed until 1904 when his father died. He was afterwards articled to a Wrexham solicitor and he
HOOSON, JOHN (1883 - 1969), teacher, scholar the City of Westminster School for over thirty years. However his main interest was in the life and culture of Wales, particularly the social and economic life of Hiraethog and the Vale of Clwyd. He was an authority on the place-names of these areas and on their famous people - such as the Myddleton family, Galch Hill, Denbigh, the Salusbury family, Emrys ap Iwan, Thomas Jones, Thomas Gee of Denbigh
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet Ben T. Hopkins was born on 3 December 1897 at Waunhelyg, Lledrod, Ceredigion, the son of Ifan Hopkins (1851-1931), carpenter, and his wife Mary (née Jones, 1859-1897). His mother died a week after his birth and he was brought up by his mother's sister and brother, Margaretta Jones (1867-1944) and Dafydd Jones (1854-1929), at Triael, Blaenpennal, a smallholding which is now a ruin. His father

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